The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-29

ny LUCY RANDALL COMFORT.

bsphens, in q sudden outburst OF
despair. ayes, it is. Here / have
been going to school all my life, and |
<hon't know anything. There never
|~boBld have been" Roxy deliberately
aided, "even in the Dark Ages, such
ON ignoramus as am. ! don't even
4Bow how to feed the chickens proper
as a downy colony OF little "Do'
.niniques" scattered this way and that
sAcfore the mass OF scalded meal which
Roxy had flung to abruptly into their
lznidst. while tile mother hen, sounding
a trumpet-note OF shrill alarm, scut-
died back against the picket.fence,
vith Tapping wings and feathers all
y bristle
The door-yard, starred with yellow
dandelon blooms and turied with
s0settes OF plantain leaves, was
ZEteeped in the soft noon heats;
Us chevaux-de.irise OF pink and
! EIce- colored hollyhocks guarded
xhs garden wall, and q faint scent Of
happening raspberries hoated on tine air.
Down by the maple swamp cow-hells
kinkled softly, and some wild bird
rhistled the same refrain owe and
pvcr again with melodious consistency
rom the hazel copse across the road.
nd Roxy Stephens, sitting dolorous-
Fon the door.stone, with her chin
ppOrted in both hands, neither
kv nor heard these sweet interpreta'
lions Of nature.
4 I'p 20 a certain degree there was
! tvuth in her lamentatlon. Roxy had
kxxen seventeen years old when she
l.e to live with her aunt Sally Step
Is on the Redbrook farm. She was
bright haired, iresh-complexioned
H. with shady blue eyes, empha'
led by perfectly arched brows a
Thought heavier than falls to the
iclsual lot OF womankind. They had
ALWAYS been q secret grievance to her,
,snese black leech-like curves; but, had
she only known it, the dark, strongly
p,encilIed brows were what gave char
aeter TO her whole face, and redeemed
&c from the insipidity OF mere pink and
white prettiness. In certain fashion
aier mind correspondent to her eye.
Erows. There was quaint vein OF
originality pervading it. Her nature
WAS strongly outlined, too, and in the
stiffness OF her youth and vitality she
had once believed that she was born
20 conquer fate.
Roxanna Stephens was city bred
siri, the daughter OF Miss Sally's old
tst brother, who had died unexpf cted-
~, leaving motherless girl totally
|IInprovded for Thus do people give
mortgages TO fate, and dying, leave
''Dthcrs TO foreclose on them. There is
undoubtedly certain degree OF in
Justice in it; but who shall venture to
ARP against the Lords will Miss
Sally herself, a complaining little wom-
an, with face full OF fine wrinkles,
IKE China Grape, and blue eyes hidden
behind misty spectacles, accepted the
crust, as she had accepted all the
rnther inconvenience OF her life, Imply
and without protest. She had never
rad any strong emotions one way or
i ehe other. Ii she had any active
1Ieasure it was in gathering the hum
bic herbs and simples OF her native
fields and drying them in preparation
or the aches and pains that beset her
\ pooE humanity. "lts always well to
,e prepared, said she. ~ dom hold
with the homnpathies, nor yet l
hain't no faith in calome and mercury.
There amt nothin' like roots and
herbs, and every neighbor within ten
miles around comes to me for EN-
when THEY'VE sickness in the house"
Aod to this little cd brown woman
m a little old brown farmhouse came
Roxanna, the young princess who had
=tst forth to conquer the world.
@1'm desput glad you've come, Rox-
Inner" said Miss Stephens, smiling at
Il bunch OF wited pennyroyal. liant
, BE to keep on dom as hev been
bin. Somehow its borne in upon me
nat Providence has sent you. I've
worked powerful hard all my life, and
nov ri lust rest spell, and let you
keen house for me. hain't no doubt
at all but what we'll get along togeth-
- first-rate, you and me.
Roxy looked with solemn eyes at
ser aunt. Evidently the old lady had
laifh as a grain OF mustard seed, and
here was something contagious in
Aerexample.
at must be very easy to keep
house" said Roxy, fresh from the
.siass- room and recitation-hall. so the
4. ..o. Iol,x.ara1 into har